Il canto degli uccelli saluta la patria
1965 · I Dischi del Sole DS 57 · Milan, Italy
- Artist
- Coro della RDV
- Title
- Il canto degli uccelli saluta la patria
- Release
- Sul fronte del Viet Nam
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- I Dischi del Sole # DS 57
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Milan, Italy
- Songwriter
- Traditional (Vietnam)
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs
Titled "Sul fronte del Viet Nam" ("On the Viet Nam Front"), this 7" gatefold was released in Italy (I Dischi del Sole # DS 57), with the track titles, lyrics, and notes on the sleeve written in Italian. All the songs are sung in Vietnamese, containing elements of Vietnamese Folk Music and Nhạc đỏ. Some have an introduction, spoken in Italian. The artist are credited to the groups of the "RDV", which presumably is supposed to be the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Tracks included praising the North Vietnamese leader Hồ Chí Minh - "Benvenuto a Ho-Ci-Min" ("Welcome to Ho Chi Minh"). The final track, labelled as "Inno del Fronte di Liberazione" ("Anthem of the Liberation Front"), is in fact "Giải phóng miền Nam" ("Liberating the South"), composed by the trio Lưu Hữu Phước, Mai Văn Bộ and Huỳnh Văn Tiểng, under the pseudonym Huỳnh Minh Siêng, in 1961, the national anthem of Provisional South Vietnam government.1. This version sounds like a field recording, with the associated low quality.Sources1Wikipedia: Giải phóng miền Nam↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu.…
About the artist
A choir of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), as credited on the Italian issue.
Themes
From the release Sul fronte del Viet Nam